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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
World's fair souvenir cook book
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
A photographic postcard of visitors in front of the Philippines exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair. The image includes a ticket booth and a thatched roof structure with an overhead sign reading "Philippine Visayan Village."
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The map is within a printed frame, the title is printed above and below this frame; in the left corner above the frame is an image of the Spirit of the Pacific and in the right corner is an image of the Spirit of the Atlantic, sculptures by Isidore Konti from the 1904 World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) which marked the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. "Copyright, 1923, in Canada and the United States by the Candian Pacific Railway / Engraved and printed at the Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, N.Y."--text, small type, lower left corner of the map. Poster backed by linen and is tacked onto two wood dowels; meant to hang as a wall map. "C.P.R. World Map"--on verso, in ms., in pencil.
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A photograph album compiled by Lily Henrietta Tiedeman (1879-1953) documenting her tour of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (popularly known as the St. Louis World's Fair), while working as a journalist for the Sedalia Sentinel in Missouri. Tiedeman attended with her brother John Tiedeman, who was business manager of the Sedalia Sentinel at the time. The opening page displays the press pass for "L. H. Tiedeman," followed by 114 photographs presumably taken by her, interspersed with souvenir ephemera including ribbons, tickets, passes, business cards, and badges. The photographs document the attendees, elaborate buildings and grounds, and the various exhibits, particularly the "human zoos" of indigenous people. Images include the Philippine Village featuring Igorot people; Native Americans on horses in front of posters announcing the Custer's Massacre reenactment performances; the Japanese tea garden and pavilion (she pasted in the business card of artist Hokkai Takashima); and the East-India pavilion. Also of note are the Transportation Day photographs of electric trolleys of the St. Louis Car Company. There are a few photographs of a young woman posing, who may be Tiedeman.
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Image of an aerial "perspective view of New Orleans [Louisiana], and environs from the south" along Lake Pontchartrain at center surrounded by five smaller images of buildings to be used for various exhibit halls during the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, including the main building, hall for United States and state exhibits, art gallery, horticultural hall, and buildings for factory and mills exhibits; a ground plan at bottom center shows a scale diagram of the exhibition grounds with a key for the various buildings; text describes the exhibits, structures, transportation, and accommodation planned for the event at the lower left and right, globe with New Orleans captioned at top center.
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The Jay T. Last collection of fairs and expositions prints and ephemera contains more than 1,900 printed items that relate to fairs, exhibitions, expositions, and other similar gatherings and events in the United States from 1834 to 1970, with the bulk of material pertaining to the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876. The collection consists of advertising prints, promotional ephemera, business records, and illustrations produced for specific events, for exhibitors at these events, and for businesses that provided collateral services to event-goers including food, lodging, and transportation. Prints and ephemera pertaining to international, regional, and local fairs and expositions make up the collection. The bulk of the material is related to the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876, but also prominent are materials related to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of explorer Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. Other fairs and exhibitions represented in the collection include the Great International Exhibition in London, England, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City, the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, and various local county fairs.The collection touches on topics of American business development, tourism, industrial advances, agricultural exhibitions, community events and celebrations. The images are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about the history of fairs and expositions in the United States and their roles in both small and large communities, as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection also reflects America's progression from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial environment, and the technological innovations that developed during this transformation. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Image of a large exhibition building for the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana; many people are visible enjoying gardens and fountains outside the building; text describing the exposition's resources, structures, location, temperature, ocean traffic, excursions, important features, accommodation, and transportation below image at right and left.
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